Sustainable Farmland Management : Transdisciplinary Approaches
by R. Fish; S. Seymour; M. Steven; C. WatkinsFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2009-02-15
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press, USA
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Summary
Examining the relationship between sustainability and farmland management in differing temporal, spatial and production contexts, this book considers farmland multifunctionality, systems and systemic thinking, debate over information and knowledge, and ethical aspects. It suggests productive ways of proceeding to enhance integrated thinking on the subject, and will be essential reading for researchers and students in agriculture, rural studies, environmental management, geography, sociology, ecology and conservation.
Table of Contents
| List of Contributors | p. viii |
| List of Figures | p. xi |
| List of Tables | p. xii |
| List of Abbreviations | p. xiv |
| Preface | p. xv |
| Agendas for sustainable farmland management | p. 1 |
| Scene-setting Sustainable Farmland Management | p. 23 |
| The elusive quest for sustainable agriculture | p. 25 |
| The contested concept of sustainability in agriculture: an examination of the views of policymakers, scientists and farmers | p. 30 |
| Historical dimensions of sustainable farming | p. 42 |
| Soils and sustainability: the future of the South Downs | p. 49 |
| The role of organics within sustainable farmland management | p. 58 |
| Communities of Information and Knowledge | p. 67 |
| Just knowledge? Governing research on food and farming | p. 69 |
| Agricultural advisers and the transition to sustainable soil management in England: a focus on agronomists' understanding of soil | p. 77 |
| Combining scientific and lay knowledges: Participatory approaches to research in organic farming | p. 94 |
| Sustainable foodscapes? Examining consumer attitudes and practices towards food and farming in Washington State, USA | p. 107 |
| Ethical Production and Protection | p. 123 |
| A notional ethical contract with farm animals in a sustainable global food system | p. 125 |
| Beasts of a different burden: agricultural sustainability and farm animals | p. 135 |
| Agricultural biotechnology and ethics: for or against nature? | p. 149 |
| Practising Systemic Thinking | p. 159 |
| Multifunctionality in practice: research and application within a farm business | p. 161 |
| Linking environment and farming: integrated systems for sustainable farmland management | p. 169 |
| Environmental and profitable sustainability in agricultural production | p. 178 |
| The use of indicators to assess the sustainability of farms converting to organic production | p. 194 |
| Agri-environment schemes and sustainable farmland management: a farm level assessment of the economic costs and benefits | p. 203 |
| Political and Policy Frameworks | p. 215 |
| International perspectives on sustainable farmland management | p. 217 |
| The national policy dimension for environmentally sustainable agriculture: a UK perspective | p. 223 |
| Multifunctional agriculture and integrated rural development in Germany: the case of the Regional Action programme | p. 236 |
| Agendas for transdisciplinarity | p. 249 |
| Index | p. 253 |
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